NYT: "There is a new absolutist health fad: the discouragement — or even prohibition — of any behavior that seems to increase the risk of coronavirus infection, even minutely."
Notice the idiocy of famed educational institutions.
2. There are two big questions to ask about these actions: How much are they doing to reduce the spread of the virus? And do they have any downside?
The answer to the first question, according to many experts, is: They seem to do little good.
3. Prohibiting outdoor activity is unlikely to reduce the spread of the virus, nor is urging people always to wear a mask outdoors.
Worldwide, scientists have not documented any instances of outdoor transmission unless people were in close conversation.
"Gov. Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID, telling them “we froze” out of fear the true numbers would “be used against us” by federal prosecutors." nypost.com/2021/02/11/cuo…
2. After dropping the bombshell, DeRosa asked for “a little bit of appreciation of the context.” But instead of a mea culpa to the grieving family members of more than 13,000 dead seniors, she tried to make amends with the fellow Democrats for the political inconvenience to them.
3. In addition to stonewalling lawmakers on the the total number of nursing home residents killed by COVID-19, Cuomo’s administration also refused requests from the news media, and fought a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the Empire Center on Public Policy.
1. Covid-19 Update: Things Are Looking Up Worldwide
The pandemic is in retreat. The number of new coronavirus cases continues to plummet, as does the number of Americans hospitalized with symptoms. Deaths have also begun to decline.
2. Since reaching a peak on Jan. 8 — related to holiday gatherings — the number of confirmed new daily cases has fallen by almost 60%. The decline in actual cases is probably somewhat smaller, because the volume of testing has also fallen over the last few weeks. But still...
3. But still ... most of the decline in the chart above is real. We know that because the percentage of tests that came back positive has also dropped sharply (to 7 percent, from 14 percent on Jan. 8).
Democratic delegate Stacey Plaskett from Virgin Islands, who is one of the House Impeachment Managers, just recounted among Trump's transgressions: "his supporters vandalized churches."
Democratic shamelessness is veritably an 8th wonder of the world.
Democratic delegate Stacey Plaskett from Virgin Islands, who is one of the House Impeachment Managers, is now comparing January 6, 2021 with September 11, 2001.
Good Lord!
It is worth noting that having scoured thousands of hours of January 6 videos, the only 'weapon' that Democrats could locate anywhere in the security camera footage was a baseball bat being carried by one of the rioters.
1. WSJ: Biden ‘Inheritance’ Larger than Previously Reported
President Biden gives another bleak assessment on the economy while his Labor Department reports an increase in job openings.
2. The young Biden administration has already settled into an odd pattern of dissonance between the economic data the government reports and the president’s characterization of the economy.
3. Encouraging updates from federal agencies are followed by gloomy proclamations from the Oval Office intended to justify massive federal action. Tuesday brought another bleak political message on the heels of a positive market reading.
2. Time’s Molly Ball happily describes a “conspiracy” among the progressive left, big labor, big business and the Washington establishment to counter Donald Trump and suppress unwanted elements of U.S. political conversation before and after Election Day.
3. Like the various actors she describes at the heart of this vast campaign, Ms. Ball presents it as a virtuous effort to protect democracy from Mr. Trump and Covid-19.